On the rare occasions I do hard liquor, I find that rum makes me dull, tequila is interesting, bourbon is my favorite, Kamikazes are pretty cool and the rest I don't really know about. I like the beer high the best, but I don't like that you have to drink so much.

Beer or red wine. mostly because of great taste, but also they are the most controllable. I never get out of hand with those two. I don't like getting drunk anyway.
I rarely drink hard liquor, but if I do, straight vodka on ice with a lime (also controllable, lol).

Another bourbon guy here. I like Beam. The 10 year stuff is nice. Aside from that I like really interesting complex beers. As a whole, though, I don't like to get drunk, only a bit buzzy. The feeling of being drunk is very uncomfortable for me, I was never sure why people liked that. Especially to the point where you throw up. I had buddies in school who literally wouldn't stop drinking until they barfed.

It's my medicine of choice - has to be single malt though. Anything else doesn't do it for me. The peatier (i.e. muddier/shittier) the more efficacious. No pleasure to be derived, but a whole lot of well-being.

It's my medicine of choice - has to be single malt though. Anything else doesn't do it for me. The peatier (i.e. muddier/shittier) the more efficacious. No pleasure to be derived, but a whole lot of well-being.

See, I enjoy the peaty/muddy/shitty taste. Must be single malt to experience this correctly. The well-being is just a bonus.

Good vodkas (Absolut, Kettle One, Grey Goose in no particular order). Enjoy Gin & Tequila but have gotten in too much trouble with either of those. Scotches & Bourbons (dark liquors) guarantee me a hangover. Beer seems to be a lot of work for little payout. Can't get past the smell of wine, go figure.

Most old world red wines except anything French (mostly too expensive for good quality). Exception is (new world) good quality South American malbecs. Andy favourites = any really good Valpolicella, deeper Dao varieties, & older Barolos :)

Beer. Only ever had two kinds....good and better. Bud doesn't count as no-one could seriously consider it beer.
Jack Daniels. Sipped neat from a glass if I'm refined. Swigged straight from the bottle if I'm not (and the missus is nowhere in sight) and sometimes with coke if the desire takes me.
Bourbon. If for some reason I can't get Jack.
Vodka tonic. No lemon or lime wedges....why do they do that? Talk about ruining a good drink.
Gin and tonic. If no vodka....again, sans lemon/lime.
Red wine. Either expensive or quaffer.....all the same to me.
I also have an expensive penchant for French champagne.
And if at a cocktail party, I can work my way through the entire list whilst at the same time turning up my nose at how unmanly the whole concept is and ordering a beer chaser in order to add some extra testosterone.
Never much cared for Scotch, but I often wonder that now I'm older I should try to aquire a taste for some of the well aged stuff.

Sorry for the essay......I guess you could say I'm partial to a tipple.

Anything that pours, except (unfortunately) hopped beer. It would appear that I inherited an allergy to hops from my dad, believe it or not. He'd go anaphylactic and end up in the ER if he got *near* the stuff. I'm not quite so badly affected. I can drink 5 sips and be viciously sick for a week (it causes instant gastritis), but not rush-to-the-ER level sick. The thing that really sucks is having to avoid beer-battered fish&chips and the like: frying the beer in the batter apparently does not denature whatever wierdball protein it is from the hops that sets my gut off.

So I console myself with everything else. I'm especially fond of small-batch island rums these days, like Clarke's Court Old Grog from Grenada, or Seven Fathoms from Grand Cayman... The closest mass-import rum you can get here in the US without going down island for them is Mount Gay from Barbados. One thing that must be said: Bacardi products are not rum. I don't know exactly what they *are* (parts washer fluid, perhaps), but rum they are not. I can't stand 'em. They have permanently turned more people off from rum than anything else... (;-)

I don't really care for it but a Champagne drunk is great. It is different than other alcohols, makes me goofy.

My first wife used to get very abusive with people when she drank champagne.

Jules, Jack Daniels is bourbon, no?

I like light American lagers, like Bud. Heavy beers are too bitter for me. Wine makes me tired and dull.

The only time I will drink is after a gig, and I don't even do that anymore. Not at home, not usually even at a party. Alcohol is something I can't even do on a semi regular basis, it's too strong for me.

I'm told that if you refer to it as bourbon in Lynchburg, Tennessee.....you'll be hung, drawn and quartered for heresy. Apparently the purists have always defined it as a "Tennesse whiskey"

From Wiki: Although the product generally meets the regulatory criteria for classification as a straight bourbon, the company disavows this classification and markets it simply as Tennessee whiskey rather than as Tennessee bourbon

As an Aussie lad far removed from the deep south, who am I to argue, uncle? I just like getting pissed on the stuff!! :-)

I'm told that if you refer to it as bourbon in Lynchburg, Tennessee.....you'll be hung, drawn and quartered for heresy. Apparently the purists have always defined it as a "Tennesse whiskey"

From Wiki: Although the product generally meets the regulatory criteria for classification as a straight bourbon, the company disavows this classification and markets it simply as Tennessee whiskey rather than as Tennessee bourbon

As an Aussie lad far removed from the deep south, who am I to argue, uncle? I just like getting pissed on the stuff!! :-)

Wise man. My family's from Tennessee. You're better off not messing with them, lol. Just drink the whiskey.

Not that I drink much at all anymore but when I do I like the good stuff like Chivas Regal 12, or preferably 18, had a shot of the 25 once, damn it was smooth. Just a nice relaxing buzz. I like beer also but drink the good stuff but it just makes me sleepy.

The wife will not allow me to drink anything stronger than beer or wine. I will binge drink any liquor I can get my hands on. The results are a blacked out evening and a worthless next two days. I never get sick though, must be my Polish genes.

That being said, we really don't drink that much at all. I may buy a six pack once a month at most. Gotta be a thick dark beer though, I don't like the watered down domestics.

I drink Sierra Nevada Torpedos. It's pretty much the only beer I buy anymore unless I'm at a bar playing a gig, then I'll probably have a Newcastle or whatever IPA is on tap, if there is one on tap.

I drink bourbon too. Top shelf only: High West, Bulleit, Templeton. I like the rye whiskies too. You guys can have your Jack Daniels, if you want a good Tenessee whiskey try the Tenessee Jailers Whiskey.

On the rare occasions I do hard liquor, I find that rum makes me dull, tequila is interesting, bourbon is my favorite, Kamikazes are pretty cool and the rest I don't really know about. I like the beer high the best, but I don't like that you have to drink so much.

What's your favorite alcohol high and why?

Not a huge drinker but:

1) Jim Beam - when Im with old friends who want to pretend we're all 20 years old for one evening

2) Glenmorangie- When Im with some 'sophisticates' who might give me an opportunity to make some money.

Definitely beer, preferably a great Belgium ale like Trappas or Gulden Draak but Miller will also do. Why? Because I'm a cheap date.......And beecusse it nun off yoooor darn busnus Mr......BAH!
Where's my cymbals????

Hmmm...honestly I would have to say whatever got me laid back in my younger days (their choice). When I lived in Europe for 3 years I preferred the good German beers...ahh the memories! When I visited London the local ales. When I visited France I took my own lol. And when I would go to the Costa Brava region of Spain refer back to my first statement. However a couple pitchers of Sangria found myself waking up on the beach at 4 in the morning ;-)

I'm in the same page. I prefer the state that beer puts me in, but I have to drink so much that I just feel full before I ever really feel enough of the effects.

I normally drink Whiskey. Sometimes I drink Everclear, 190 proof. It's crazy, in that I'll drink a good amount in a short period, and I'll be wasted for like 30 minutes. Then it just feels like I'm sober again. A friend of mine had the same experience with it.